Young tucker always dreamed of being a Broadway star but his father was ashamed that his son wasn’t more athletic and never attended any of his private school plays, haunted by the memory of the empty reserved seat he lashes out at anyone with a dream.

This is the tolerance paradox. If society is tolerant of intolerant beliefs then intolerant beliefs can corrupt society to become intolerant.

Congress adopted In God We Trust over E Pluribus Unum and added Under God to the Pledge of Allegiance in the 50’s in response to the Red Scare and America has been pretty fanatical about it since then.

The Legendary Hero is Dead! suddenly makes a lot more sense

A couple of the early ads that I saw for the movie leaned pretty hard into “god save america” so I don’t really know what I think about A24 right now.